Music is an escape for me.
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like 'Sharp Objects' and 'The Woman in Cabin 10.'
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.